Attenuation Parameters and Effective Atomic Numbers of Concretes Containing Pumice for Some Photon Energies by Experiment, Simulation and Calculation
Attenuation Parameters and Effective Atomic Numbers of Concretes Containing Pumice for Some Photon Energies by Experiment, Simulation and Calculation
Photon mass attenuation coefficients and effective atomic numbers for three types of concretes containing pumice mineral in differentrates (namely 0%, 50% and 100%) were studied by photon transmission experiments, by simulations and by theoretical calculations.Experimental procedure was realized by using a 3ʺ×3ʺ NaI(Tl) connected to a 16k multichannel analyzer detector system for 511, 835and 1275 keV photon energies. In simulations, Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation toolkit was used to estimate the total mass attenuationcoefficients via total linear attenuation coefficients. For theoretical calculations, web version of XCOM code was used at 1 keV – 100GeV energy region for comparison. Also, mean free paths and half value layer thicknesses of concretes were calculated at this energiesby means of attenuation coefficients obtained by three methods. Results from each method were found to be in a reasonably goodagreement. Besides, it was concluded that addition of heavy weight elements to concrete effected attenuation parameters positively.
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